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I'm in the one and only line of work where Mercator makes sense, and even I hate Mercator.
Mercator distorts landmass to fit the grid, so it is good for navigation, simply draw a straight line between two points and follow it. Also, the plea on that site is just...weird. Africa is not taken seriously because it is displayed too small on maps - what? It is a large, chunky continent that can be compressed without too much detail loss - Europe, not so much.
Maybe Greenland's size on the projection is what got Trump all worked up. :P
This is so dumb what do you mean replace you have a phone and can look up different versions as u please
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Firstly, I do think that projections which enlarge Europe and north America relative to the global south are a problem and every curriculum should include education about how this happens and what the world really looks like.
But also, kinda funny how this project is very specifically about fairness for Africa. Why not include south America in there too?
Why not include south America in there too?
Almost nobody here gives a flying fuck about education quality. If we were to talk about education injustices we could argue about how the USA stole the name of the continent for theirs and how most of the world went along with that, and you people don't seem to like that talk...
But in all seriousness I guess we as Latin America/South America don't have that sense of unity as Africa does. We are absurdly diverse and I think it has taken a toll in our sense of identity
The globe in the thumbnail is really bothering me. Does the artist not know how to align objects?
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The slider is very revealing. Hard to believe that were still using Mercator projection when its so incredibly deceiving even if you actually know the real sizes.
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I laugh every time.
You could not bitch about a more pointless subject.
Brave take with your comment history public lmao
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